Refining a traditional urban-rural classification approach to better assess heterogeneity of treatment effects in patient-centered outcomes research
This article describes a rationale and approach for modifying the traditional rural-urban commuting area (RUCA) coding scheme used to classify U.S. ZIP codes to enable suburban/rural vs. urban core comparisons in health outcomes research that better reflect current geographic differences in access t...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2021-01-01
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| Series: | MethodsX |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215016121000923 |